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KUWAIT. "I don't think Kuwait has had a high-level American visitor for some time; they had been asking for one." SAUDI ARABIA. "Of course my visit there comes as a result of the recent visit of King Faisal to Washington. I happened to be sitting next to Faisal at a luncheon at the White House, and he evidenced an interest in having me visit his country if I found it convenient...
...official reports the battle cost ARVN about 800 dead, wounded and missing; the Communists claim that the figure is almost twice as high. Saigon reports that with U.S. air support, its troops inflicted 4,500 casualties on the enemy. Yet as a result of the performance in Snuol, there was enough high-level dismay in Saigon that the task force commander, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hieu, was relieved of his command...
Wald suggests that one way to avoid isolating undergraduates in the Center would be to introduce high-level research groups into the building. Williams strenuously objects to this idea, citing the "expansive" habits of researchteams which "will spread out like an advancing wave and will finally take over the whole." Williams sees the question of distance affecting not the quality of the education but merely the convenience of the professor...
...such figures do not explain the rise of high-level profiteering. Under Diem, corruption was relatively restrained and furtive. Today it permeates the hierarchy, in large part because President Nguyen Van Thieu has made no convincing moves to curtail it. His supporters point out that he is restrained from effective action by the fact that his political base includes a number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other...
Huge Windfalls. U.S. complaints about corruption have irritated the Vietnamese, who point out correctly that many Americans, both civilian and military, are deeply involved in illegal practices. Indeed it is probably fair to say that much of the high-level corruption in Viet Nam today can be traced directly to the complicity of Americans. Last April, for example, a Vietnamese minister asked a U.S. aid official to sign an export permit for 22,000 tons of copper (price: $1,000 a ton), claiming the copper came from generator wiring picked up in Cambodia. The official signed the paper, thereby testifying...